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Features collections around the world highlighting art and artisans through the centuries in many artistic venues including furniture design, interior design, film, video, paintings, sculpture and photography.

PSEG Gives State Museum $500,000 for a Climate Change Exhibit
The American Evolution: A History Through Art Opens at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Art Gallery of Ontario

Art in the Age of van Gogh: Dutch Paintings from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is the first North American survey of 19th-century Dutch painting since the beginning of this century.

The Art Institute of Chicago

African and American Arts, Architecture, Asian Art, Classical Art, European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, European Painting, Photography, Prints, Drawings, Textiles, Throne Rooms, Twentieth-Century Painting / Sculpture.

Bauhaus Museum - Berlin

The Bauhaus was the twentieth century's most important school of design, architecture and art, which has maintained its influence on design up to the present day. Objects from the Collection, which is the world's largest on the subject and represents the entire spectrum of Bauhaus activities, are presented in spacious galleries of the Museum throughout the year: architecture, furniture, ceramics, metalwork, photography, stage pieces and student work from the Preliminary Course, as well as works created by the school's famous teachers: Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

The Brooklyn Museum of Art

One of the largest art institutions in the U.S. with collections in Ancient Egyptian art and American Painting & Sculpture.

Carnegie Museum of Art

The Carnegie Museum of Art offers a distinguished collection of contemporary art that includes film and video works. Other collections include works of American art from the late nineteenth century, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, opened as part of the Museum in 1993, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models. The Hall of Architecture contains the largest collection of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in America and one of the three largest in the world. The marble Hall of Sculpture replicates the interior of the Parthenon.

Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
Comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany
THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM: Museum of Architecture and Design

Founded in 1988, the Museum is dedicated to the Art of Design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial, and product design, graphics, and urban planning. The Museum's mission is the advancement of public education about the value of Good Design - from the "spoon to the city" - and how design can positively impact the human environment. As the nation's only independent Museum of architecture and Design The Chicago Athenaeum has demonstrated leadership and innovation in bringing the subject of design and its impact on the quality of life before a national and international audience. At the same time, the Museum has expanded its international programs by presenting significant exhibitions on architecture and design to cities through the United States, as well as Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming. It is the mission of Cooper-Hewitt’s staff and Board of Trustees to advance the public understanding of design across the twenty-four centuries of human creativity represented by the Museum’s collection.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
The collection's paintings and sculpture are the legacy of William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), the museum's founder and a leading patron of American art. Together with its noted holdings of 19th-century American prints and drawings, the collection brings us face-to-face with the people, the landscape and the lifestyles of a dramatically different time. In keeping with its founder's commitment to the art of his day, the Corcoran continues to broaden its collection to include a wide selection of works by contemporary artists. Today, the Corcoran is renowned for its collection of 20th-century painting, sculpture and photography. In total, the Corcoran's American holdings illuminate the nation's history and artistic development from colonial times through the 20th century.
Dallas Museum of Art
Ancient American, African, Indonesian, and contemporary art, as well as American decorative arts.
Denver Art Museum
Design Museum - London
The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, and architecture to industrial design. It is working to place design at the centre of contemporary culture. It demonstrates both the richness of the creativity to be found in all forms of design, and its importance.
Detroit Institute of Arts
The fifth-largest fine arts museum in the United States has holdings of over 60,000 works. Within its more than one hundred galleries are paintings, sculpture, and graphic and decorative arts.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Exhibitions: American Paintings, American Crafts & Sculpture, Art of the Americas, African Art, Oceanic Art, Textiles/ Ancient Art, Medieval Art, Renaissance Art, 17th-Century European Art, 18th-Century European Art, 19th-Century European Art, 20th-Century European Art, Works on Paper, Ceramics.
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture (among them one of the finest groups of small bronzes in the world), superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality.
Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim collection online premiered in April 2001 with a selection of works of art from the New York museum's holdings. Currently representing 169 artists, the collection online encompasses both the classic and the new—from the Guggenheim's earliest work, an 1867 landscape by Camille Pissarro, through more recent acquisitions, a 1998–99 sculpture by Robert Gober—striking a balance that reflects the dynamic tenor of the institution as a whole. In the winter of 2001, we added almost 100 works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, in the summer of 2003 we added works commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim, which will soon be followed by highlights from the collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
The Hermitage

National Historic Landmark, is a 14-room Gothic Revival home built in 1847-48 from designs by William H. Ranlett for Elijah Rosencrantz, Jr. The house incorporates portions of an historic 18th century house.

High Museum of Art
Horta Museum

 Art Nouveau home built by Victor Horta in the 1890's.

J. Paul Getty Museum 
The Kimbell Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum library's online catalogue, Watsonline, is accessible to all. In addition, the staff of the Lita Annenberg Hazen and Joseph H. Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources has catalogued hundreds of art-related and general resources for online research.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
One of North America's finest encyclopedic collections, totaling over 25,000 objects of Canadian Art, Contemporary Art, Inuit and Amerindian Art, European Masters, Prints and Drawings, Decorative Arts.
Musée des Augustins
Musée du Louvre

Established in 1793, the Louvre Museum, in the company of the Ashmolean Museum (1683), the Dresden Museum (1744) and the Vatican Museum (1784) is one of the earliest European museums.

Museum of Art and Design - Helsinki
Museum of Art and Design - New York

For nearly half a century, the Museum of Arts & Design has served as the country's premier institution dedicated to the collection and exhibition of contemporary objects created in clay, glass, wood, metal and fiber. The Museum celebrates materials and processes that are today embraced by artists in the fields of craft, art and design.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Offering exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945 documenting contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance.
Museum of Design - Zurich
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston

French Photography: Le Gray to Atget, Reopening of Egyptian Funerary Arts and Ancient Near East Galleries, American Traditions: Art of the People, A Monumental Egyptian Gateway in Boston, Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, The Firestone Collection of French Silver, Face to Face with the Builder of the Great Pyramid, Galleries for the Art of Africa, Oceania and the Ancient Americas.

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
The Museum of Modern Art
MOMA Architecture and Design documents, drawings, film and video, painting and sculpture, photograph, prints and illustrated books are available.
National Building Museum
The National Gallery
The National Gallery of Art

Index of American Design features Costumes, Dolls, Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest, Furniture, Metalwork, Pennsylvania German Folk Art, Pottery, Shaker Crafts, Textiles, Toys and Woodcarving

The National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Ireland
The National Museum of African Art
The National Museum of the American Indian
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Portrait Gallery

Prairie Styles: Online Museum of Prairie Style Architecture

The ideas and principles of the Prairie School of Architecture evolved out of the inspirational and philosophical teachings of Louis Sullivan and were realized on the drafting boards of the shared drafting room loft of the Steinway Piano Company Building in Chicago, Illinois beginning in the 1890’s. Following the lead of Frank Lloyd Wright, were a group of architects and artisans that over the course of the next 25 years worked and shared ideas together that developed into a style of architecture that was unique to America. Explore an online museum of the architects, the artisans, and the styles that were part of this progressive group.

Robert McLaughlin Gallery

Collections consist of over 6,800 works of art. The computerized collection comprises nearly 3,000 historical photographs of Oshawa and Durham Region. About 100 works are featured in four exhibitions per year. In addition to art, the Gallery acquires research materials. Its Library is the largest art library in Durham Region devoted to fine art and the history of visual arts.

Salvador Dali Art Gallery

Extensive collection of Dali's work.

The Salvador Dali Museum

Comprehensive collection of this great Spanish artist's works.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Collects, preserves, presents, and interprets the best of contemporary and modern art for the purpose of enriching people's lives through aesthetic and learning experiences.

The Smithsonian

The Smithsonian holds more than 140 million artifacts and specimens with a center for research dedicated to public education, national service, scholarship in the arts, sciences and history.

The Tate Gallery

Vitra Design Museum - Berlin

Documents the history and current trends in industrial furniture design.

The Wyeth Center at The Farnsworth Museum

 
 

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